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War Shirt
Missouri1830–40
- Attribution
- Upper Missouri River Tribe Missouri, United States
- Medium
- Deer hide, ermine tails, glass pony beads, hair, porcupine quills, and trade cloth
- Physical dimensions
- Approx: 101.6 × 50.8 cm (40 × 20 in.)
- Credit line
- Frederick W. Renshaw, Ada Turnbull Hertle, and Curator's Discretionary funds; purchased with funds provided by the Donnelley Foundation, Cynthia and Terry E. Perucca, and Mrs. Leonard S. Florsheim, Jr.; African and Amerindian Art Small Gifts Fund; Arnold Crane Endowment; African and Amerindian Art Purchase Fund; David Soltker and Irving Dobkin endowments
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Equipped with powerful symbols and emblems, war shirts expressed the wearer's authority and status, and also served as his protective spiritual armor in battle.
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